How popular is “Tru” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Tru” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Tru” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Tru” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Tru” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1995	16	0.000004369	7	9	-13%
1996	7	0.000001919		7	-100%
1997	10	0.000002758		10	-100%
1998	14	0.000003806	6	8	-14%
1999	13	0.000003519		13	-100%
2000	21	0.000005556		21	-100%
2001	21	0.00000561	6	15	-43%
2002	22	0.000005885	9	13	-18%
2003	35	0.000009205	14	21	-20%
2004	158	0.000041351	126	32	59%
2005	130	0.000033812	98	32	51%
2006	93	0.000023507	64	29	38%
2007	79	0.000019761	50	29	27%
2008	84	0.00002137	40	44	-5%
2009	128	0.000033506	76	52	19%
2010	134	0.000036258	63	71	-6%
2011	95	0.000025972	53	42	12%
2012	110	0.000030076	46	64	-16%
2013	104	0.000028527	36	68	-31%
2014	111	0.000029948	39	72	-30%
2015	121	0.000032695	49	72	-19%
2016	112	0.000030529	31	81	-45%
2017	152	0.000042503	45	107	-41%
2018	243	0.000069115	72	171	-41%
2019	350	0.000100837	115	235	-34%
2020	431	0.00012902	145	286	-33%
2021	612	0.00018064	221	391	-28%
2022	714	0.000211047	287	427	-20%
2023	675	0.000203854	268	407	-21%
2024	761	0.000228631	300	461	-21%

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